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Listen!--I have been sent over here by the Republican Government as its representative: I present my credentials to Mr.Pitt in London to-morrow.

One of my duties here is to find out all about this League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, which has become a standing menace to France, since it is pledged to help our cursed aristocrats--traitors to their country, and enemies of the people--to escape from the just punishment which they deserve.

You know as well as I do, citoyenne, that once they are over here, those French EMIGRES try to rouse public feeling against the Republic.

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